Word: hainan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many fishermen are responding. Under the guns of a Nationalist naval flotilla (a few destroyer escorts and smaller patrol craft), they are bringing their boats to Hainan. The Communists are smarting. "Landing operations," admitted a recently captured Red field order, "may be delayed...
Rifles & Rice. Two months ago the tattered remnant of a beaten Nationalist army started pouring into Hainan from South China. Hungry soldiers roamed Haikow's crooked, dirty streets and sold their rifles for rice. The Little Tiger struggled for discipline. Demoralized troops were moved out of the towns into the countryside, paid in silver dollars (for a change), reorganized and re-equipped. Hsueh now has 160,000 men of varying fitness. His best units are digging in along the white sand beaches of Hainan's northern coast...
...Hainan, are some 25,000 Red guerrillas. They control about 40% of the island...
Hope & Heart. The Chinese came to Hainan in in B.C. For centuries the island was a torrid Siberia where imperial dynasts often dumped political foes. * Between 1939 and 1945 the Japanese transformed Hainan into another kind of imperial base. On the undeveloped, malarial outpost, they established military camps, dredged a deepwater harbor at Yulin on the south coast, developed rich iron mines, built a hydroelectric plant, cement factory and fish cannery. The Japanese enterprises have deteriorated because the Hainanese lack replacement parts and maintenance skill. Hsueh is tearing down one of two arsenals and shipping it to Formosa...
...Hainan hand, a foreigner who has lived on the island for 25 years, gives the Little Tiger credit for the beginning of progress. "Why, the people are actually showing some respect for the soldiers," he says. "If they have the heart to fight, these troops could make it tough for the Communists...